On one side are the “conservatives” who rallied behind Zimmerman and defended him from attacks that he might have racial biases. On the other are “liberals” who seek justice for Martin a young black man whose killer, until yesterday, remained free.

The dialogue shift from justice for Trayvon toward a conversation about race and the “threatening” nature of black males made its way to right wing sites and in the writings of contributors to the National Review website. In screeds about race relations in America, these older white conservative gentlemen exposed themselves as men whose viewpoints reflect certain racial prejudices.

A National Review online contributor, John Derbyshire recently wrote a ridiculously offensive column (for the little-known Taki magazine) where he explained the advice he gave to his own children entitled, “The Talk: The Nonblack Version.” He claimed it was a response to the idea that black parents have conversations with their children about confrontations with police and perceived suspicions by whites about their criminality.

Derbyshire wrote, “[t]here is a talk that non-black Americans have with their kids, too. My own kids, now 19 and 16, have had it in bits and pieces as subtopics have arisen.” He then went into a list of extremely offensive statements and generalizations about the criminality of black people.

For example, Derbyshire wrote he teaches his kids to, “Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to [them] personally, to stay out of heavily black neighborhoods, to not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks, and to not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.”

Derbyshire also teaches his children to “not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians,” which is amusing considering that America’s current commander and chief is black.

It’s the negative rappers fault, no other race publicaly and commerically display gangsta, hood, ”getting money”, ”bitches and hoes” mentality, it’s a natural reaction to all the negativity displayed by certain rappers. If the behaviour of those rappers was commerically done by white people we would give them a major side eye. If we’re gonna work out race problems we need to work with the black community. Al Sharpton and Jesse should be having a talk about upgrading the image of certain rappers instead of seeking approval of whites. At this point, I’m tired of defending myself and I dont care what white people think, but I care about REAL solutions for the black community. I’m a Nigerian and I dont want to be lumped into the mess, but I am because of my skin and that is why I’m passionate about it. Lil Wayne is feautered on a new song and the first thing I hear is ”Fuck hoes, I dont trust no bitches” and Nicki Minajs new song ”Bitchin aint shit, they cant tell me nothing, a hundred motherfuckers cant tell me nothin” … IT’S TOO MUCH. TOO MUCH NEGATIVITY. TO MUCH PROMOTION OF THE ”HOOD LIFE” ETC. Until then I wont even call the white guy who wrote the article ignorant, the rappers that portay this image are ignorant, if we spent as much time scrutinizing them instead of racists, maybe we would go somewhere …

Not all rappers are bad, not saying that, I love hiphop, but the most famous and mainstream at the moment are terrible.

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It’s the negative rappers fault, no other race publicaly and commerically display gangsta, hood, ”getting money”, ”bitches and hoes” mentality, it’s a natural reaction to all the negativity displayed by certain rappers. If the behaviour of those rappers was commerically done by white people we would give them a major side eye. If we’re gonna work out race problems we need to work with the black community. Al Sharpton and Jesse should be having a talk about upgrading the image of certain rappers instead of seeking approval of whites. At this point, I’m tired of defending myself and I dont care what white people think, but I care about REAL solutions for the black community. I’m a Nigerian and I dont want to be lumped into the mess, but I am because of my skin and that is why I’m passionate about it. Lil Wayne is feautered on a new song and the first thing I hear is ”Fuck hoes, I dont trust no bitches” and Nicki Minajs new song ”Bitchin aint shit, they cant tell me nothing, a hundred motherfuckers cant tell me nothin” … IT’S TOO MUCH. TOO MUCH NEGATIVITY. TO MUCH PROMOTION OF THE ”HOOD LIFE” ETC. Until then I wont even call the white guy who wrote the article ignorant, the rappers that portay this image are ignorant, if we spent as much time scrutinizing them instead of racists, maybe we would go somewhere …

Not all rappers are bad, not saying that, I love hiphop, but the most famous and mainstream at the moment are terrible..